Fantasy Mock Trial 2019 ORCS Edition

February 26th, 2019, 08:35 AM

Welcome to the 2019 season of Fantasy Mock Trial! After taking a couple years off from doing this, I was inspired by MAIMD’s post last year to take it on again. Hopefully, given the reinvigorated online mock community over the past couple years, there will be some interest.

Background (aka, badly written mock trial fan fiction. You can skip this part if you want to, but, honestly, why else do you even come to Perjuries?)

On November 12, 2017, Danny Kosack received an insurance payment due to Elias passing away during a performance. The payment, $150,000, came too late to save his animal sanctuary. Undeterred, Kosack knew that if he invested the money, he could build an even better sanctuary. But how to invest it? Kosack had never had much of a head for business, and he didn’t trust the stock market ever since a series of bad investments in various Midlands companies (more specifically HappyLand Toy Company, Neptune Underwater Expeditions, RatcheterWorld, and AD Baker &amp; Co.) had cost his parents their retirement. Then one day, while Kosack was complaining about his financial state to the one animal he’d been able to keep from his sanctuary (a parrot named Kennedy), the parrot something gamechanging:

1) You must choose one team from each ORCS (listed on the spreadsheet)

2) You are limited to a budget of $150,000

Once you have selected your teams, submit them to this form by 3 PM Central on March 8: https://fantasymock.allenbarr.com. (The form will go live once all open bids have been accepted. Any submissions made beforehand will not be recorded, as ORCS assignment/team prices may change until that time.) You are also encouraged (but not required) to post your team list here.

Scoring

1 point per ballot won by a team on your list + 2 points per NCT bid earned + 1 point per honorable mention + 1 point per SPAMTA.

Prizes

First Place: Nothing

Second Place: Nothing

Third Place: Nothing

Fourth Place: Food Reward

Fifth Place: Nothing

Sixth Place: Nothing

Seventh Place: Nothing

Eighth Place: Food Reward

Notes

I will be running another round for Nationals. There will be a discount for keeping teams from your ORCS roster, so choose accordingly.

I have assigned each school’s A Team the record that resulted in that team having the higher cost (even where it was actually a lower team that had the better record).

Yale B (Chestnut Hill), UCLA A (Santa Monica), Chicago A (Cedar Rapids), UPenn A (Richmond), University of Portland A (Decatur), Tennessee Chattanooga A (Memphis), Columbia University B (Central Islip), University of Dayton A (Hamilton), University of Arizona B (Geneva)

Comment

The form will be updated once all bids are handed out. I made it during round 4 of the Saint Paul regional, and rather than constantly updating it with teams, I’m going to update it once, when all bids have been assigned.